DIRECTIVE TO THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF[2]

Published:First published (in facsimile) in 1939 inVoyenno-Istorichesky ZhurnalNo. 5.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Weappend three signatures of C.C. members to the
demand of the two C.C. members, and forward this demand,
as a demand of the Central Committee, to the military
authorities for fulfilment.

Membersof the C.C., R.C.P.

Moscow, 8. I. 1919

[1]Therefollow the signatures of Sverdlov and Smilga.—Ed.

[2]OnDecember 25, 1918, Kolchak’s troops occupied Perm. Having
examined the letter from the Urals Regional Party Committee on
the causes of the reverses of the 3rd Army, the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
set up a Committee of Inquiry consisting of J. V. Stalin and
F. E. Dzerzhinsky, which visited the 3rd Army early in January
1919.

Lenin’sdirective was written in connection with a letter from
Stalin and Dzerzhinsky in which they reported on the opening
of the investigation and pointed out that in order to prevent the
rapid advance of the enemy, it was essential to send urgently three
reliable regiments to reinforce the 3rd Army.

Onthis subject, see also this volume, Documents 219, 251,
and present edition, Vol. 28, p. 390.